The telicity parameter revisited
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
... measured or quantified (but not bare mass or bare plural nominals), and (ii) stand in the Incremental Theme relation to their governing verb (‘Incremental Theme’ in the sense of Dowty 1991, based on Krifka 1986, 1989). Notice that these are precisely the conditions under which a direct object determ ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
The Infinitive and the Infinitive Phrase
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
... 2. Find the verb 3. If the verb is an action verb (it can be done DO), ask “WHAT” after the verb. 4. If the infinitive phrase makes sense, you have a DO. The band and choir try (verb) to work together during the musical. (try what? To work together during the musical) ...
World Language Department at Northgate High
... strings of sentences, questions, and polite commands when speaking and listening; ...
... strings of sentences, questions, and polite commands when speaking and listening; ...
pronouns - YuhhediEnglish
... Possessive adjectives (also called determiners or determinative possessive pronouns) always modify/describe a noun. They must be used together with nouns they are describing, and come in front of them. There are seven of them in modern English: my, your, his, her, its, our, their. His book is exce ...
... Possessive adjectives (also called determiners or determinative possessive pronouns) always modify/describe a noun. They must be used together with nouns they are describing, and come in front of them. There are seven of them in modern English: my, your, his, her, its, our, their. His book is exce ...
Name: Date: Phrases A phrase is a group of words without a subject
... Prepositional Phrases can act as Adjective Phrases like: The tree in my yard was dead. Remember, an adjective describes a noun by telling ‘which one?’ or ‘what kind?’! Prepositional Phrases can act as Adverb Phrases like: It had been dead in 2004 when I moved in. Remember, adverbs describe verbs, ad ...
... Prepositional Phrases can act as Adjective Phrases like: The tree in my yard was dead. Remember, an adjective describes a noun by telling ‘which one?’ or ‘what kind?’! Prepositional Phrases can act as Adverb Phrases like: It had been dead in 2004 when I moved in. Remember, adverbs describe verbs, ad ...
Preface to the first edition
... animals and chemical substances, by separating out technical inforV mation from the rest of the definition: ...
... animals and chemical substances, by separating out technical inforV mation from the rest of the definition: ...
Nonintersective adjectives
... The be used in this tree is a phonetically null be “of identity”, semantically distinct from the vacuous be inserted by rule (5a). The sense of the common noun ∆ is given by context. Siegel asserts that her double category analysis of adjectives has the empirical advantage of pairing up the syntacti ...
... The be used in this tree is a phonetically null be “of identity”, semantically distinct from the vacuous be inserted by rule (5a). The sense of the common noun ∆ is given by context. Siegel asserts that her double category analysis of adjectives has the empirical advantage of pairing up the syntacti ...
BE 203 - Queensborough Community College
... In the first row of Table 6 that follows, describe the assignment that has been selected/designed for this project. In writing the description, keep in mind the course objective(s), curricular objective(s) and the general education objective(s) identified above, The assignment should be conceiv ...
... In the first row of Table 6 that follows, describe the assignment that has been selected/designed for this project. In writing the description, keep in mind the course objective(s), curricular objective(s) and the general education objective(s) identified above, The assignment should be conceiv ...
Glossary of Greek Grammar Terms
... Circumlocution– An around about way of saying something; adding unnecessary words to express an idea. Clauses– The term “clause” can be used of any construction that contains a subject and predicate and that functions within a compound or complex Greek sentence. They can, therefore, take a number of ...
... Circumlocution– An around about way of saying something; adding unnecessary words to express an idea. Clauses– The term “clause” can be used of any construction that contains a subject and predicate and that functions within a compound or complex Greek sentence. They can, therefore, take a number of ...
The Australian Curriculum English
... • the omission of words that repeat what has gone before; these terms are simply understood (for example ‘The project will be innovative. To be involved will be exciting.’ ‒ ‘in the project’ is ellipsed in the second sentence) • through a related resource called substitution, a word like ‘one’ is su ...
... • the omission of words that repeat what has gone before; these terms are simply understood (for example ‘The project will be innovative. To be involved will be exciting.’ ‒ ‘in the project’ is ellipsed in the second sentence) • through a related resource called substitution, a word like ‘one’ is su ...
from senri.ed.jp
... (1990:142-145) indicates that the Japanese lexicon consists of three strata: 1-Yamato-kotoba meaning native Japanese words; 2-Kan-go or Sino-Japanese (S-J hereafter) meaning of words of Chinese origin7 3- Gairai-go meaning words of foreign origin. The three strata of the Japanese lexicon create a l ...
... (1990:142-145) indicates that the Japanese lexicon consists of three strata: 1-Yamato-kotoba meaning native Japanese words; 2-Kan-go or Sino-Japanese (S-J hereafter) meaning of words of Chinese origin7 3- Gairai-go meaning words of foreign origin. The three strata of the Japanese lexicon create a l ...
Time and Tense in Language
... "Tense shows the time of the action or state being expressed by a verb"(Shaw, 1986, p.110). Tense is "the relationship between the form of the verb and the time of the action or state it describes"(Richards & Schmidt, 2002, p 545). Tense is the "inflectional category whose basic role is to indicate ...
... "Tense shows the time of the action or state being expressed by a verb"(Shaw, 1986, p.110). Tense is "the relationship between the form of the verb and the time of the action or state it describes"(Richards & Schmidt, 2002, p 545). Tense is the "inflectional category whose basic role is to indicate ...
Transitional Words to Connect Ideas
... They may not be having fun. (= I don’t think they are having fun) She could be thinking about her test. ...
... They may not be having fun. (= I don’t think they are having fun) She could be thinking about her test. ...
On the prepositional nature of non
... As can be seen, the most interesting aspect of the analyses in (4) corresponds to the hybrid nature of the complementizers of both past participles and gerunds, which I treat as a complex P-C element. At first glance, the idea is highly reminiscent of so-called prepositional complementizers (see Kay ...
... As can be seen, the most interesting aspect of the analyses in (4) corresponds to the hybrid nature of the complementizers of both past participles and gerunds, which I treat as a complex P-C element. At first glance, the idea is highly reminiscent of so-called prepositional complementizers (see Kay ...
An emphatic auxiliary construction for emotions in Copala
... Are we looking for a way to make God angry at us? Constraints on the repeated subject. The auxiliary is followed by either 1.) a pronominal repetition of the subject or 2) a repetition of a proper noun. If the subject of the previous emotion predicate was a pronoun, then the subject of the auxiliary ...
... Are we looking for a way to make God angry at us? Constraints on the repeated subject. The auxiliary is followed by either 1.) a pronominal repetition of the subject or 2) a repetition of a proper noun. If the subject of the previous emotion predicate was a pronoun, then the subject of the auxiliary ...
communicative constructions in written texts: verba dicendi
... - Perhaps it is not in the grammar books because the grammar books do not reflect how people actually use language. These verbs have not such an open action since they are involving mental or cognitive processes. 4.3. Manner of speaking verbs. We shall referhereto the verbsin charge of communicativ ...
... - Perhaps it is not in the grammar books because the grammar books do not reflect how people actually use language. These verbs have not such an open action since they are involving mental or cognitive processes. 4.3. Manner of speaking verbs. We shall referhereto the verbsin charge of communicativ ...
PARSING JAVA METHOD NAMES FOR IMPROVED SOFTWARE
... Table 2.1: Example of iterative refinement process for part-of-speech rules on the method name decodeRequest. Morphology rules were used to determine possible parts of speech because programmers commonly use non-dictionary words when naming identifiers. Nouns and verbs are often modified by programm ...
... Table 2.1: Example of iterative refinement process for part-of-speech rules on the method name decodeRequest. Morphology rules were used to determine possible parts of speech because programmers commonly use non-dictionary words when naming identifiers. Nouns and verbs are often modified by programm ...
086: Sentence Clarity
... Misplaced or dangling modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that confuse the meaning of a sentence. They are easily recognized because their position in the sentence makes the sentence meaningless or unclear. Misplaced Modifier A misplaced modifier can be a word, phrase, or clause that is incorre ...
... Misplaced or dangling modifiers are words, phrases, or clauses that confuse the meaning of a sentence. They are easily recognized because their position in the sentence makes the sentence meaningless or unclear. Misplaced Modifier A misplaced modifier can be a word, phrase, or clause that is incorre ...
Parts of Speech Notes
... An Antecedent is the word or group of words that the pronoun replaces. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to a person, place, or thing. Example: The pianist plays the songs. She memorized them. (SHE and THEM are pronouns) THE PIANIST is the antecedent of SHE. THE SONGS is the antecedent of THE ...
... An Antecedent is the word or group of words that the pronoun replaces. Like nouns, pronouns can refer to a person, place, or thing. Example: The pianist plays the songs. She memorized them. (SHE and THEM are pronouns) THE PIANIST is the antecedent of SHE. THE SONGS is the antecedent of THE ...
present perfect
... aware of the following: Use of present perfect for academic writing Structure Uses ...
... aware of the following: Use of present perfect for academic writing Structure Uses ...
Learnability (mostly)
... Chien and Wexler (1990 Language Acquisition) Methodology: Picture-judgment task Results: First, children ‘appear’ to violate Principle B in sentences like ‘Mama Bear is touching her’, allowing the prohibited meaning, i.e. Mama Bear is touching herself about 50% of the time However, the same children ...
... Chien and Wexler (1990 Language Acquisition) Methodology: Picture-judgment task Results: First, children ‘appear’ to violate Principle B in sentences like ‘Mama Bear is touching her’, allowing the prohibited meaning, i.e. Mama Bear is touching herself about 50% of the time However, the same children ...
The Lexical Syntax and Lexical Semantics of the Verb
... 2. The Figure is sometimes called the ‘locatum,’ the Ground the ‘location.’ See Svenonius 1996b for discussion of den Dikken’s account, Svenonius 2002 for recent discussion of the Figure–Ground distinction in the context of verb-particle constructions. ...
... 2. The Figure is sometimes called the ‘locatum,’ the Ground the ‘location.’ See Svenonius 1996b for discussion of den Dikken’s account, Svenonius 2002 for recent discussion of the Figure–Ground distinction in the context of verb-particle constructions. ...
Inflection
In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, mood, voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. The inflection of verbs is also called conjugation, and the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns is also called declension.An inflection expresses one or more grammatical categories with a prefix, suffix or infix, or another internal modification such as a vowel change. For example, the Latin verb ducam, meaning ""I will lead"", includes the suffix -am, expressing person (first), number (singular), and tense (future). The use of this suffix is an inflection. In contrast, in the English clause ""I will lead"", the word lead is not inflected for any of person, number, or tense; it is simply the bare form of a verb.The inflected form of a word often contains both a free morpheme (a unit of meaning which can stand by itself as a word), and a bound morpheme (a unit of meaning which cannot stand alone as a word). For example, the English word cars is a noun that is inflected for number, specifically to express the plural; the content morpheme car is unbound because it could stand alone as a word, while the suffix -s is bound because it cannot stand alone as a word. These two morphemes together form the inflected word cars.Words that are never subject to inflection are said to be invariant; for example, the English verb must is an invariant item: it never takes a suffix or changes form to signify a different grammatical category. Its categories can be determined only from its context.Requiring the inflections of more than one word in a sentence to be compatible according to the rules of the language is known as concord or agreement. For example, in ""the choir sings"", ""choir"" is a singular noun, so ""sing"" is constrained in the present tense to use the third person singular suffix ""s"".Languages that have some degree of inflection are synthetic languages. These can be highly inflected, such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, or weakly inflected, such as English. Languages that are so inflected that a sentence can consist of a single highly inflected word (such as many American Indian languages) are called polysynthetic languages. Languages in which each inflection conveys only a single grammatical category, such as Finnish, are known as agglutinative languages, while languages in which a single inflection can convey multiple grammatical roles (such as both nominative case and plural, as in Latin and German) are called fusional. Languages such as Mandarin Chinese that never use inflections are called analytic or isolating.